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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Datum's plural

What is the plural of datum?
  

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Hi, Data. In everyday speech, 'datum' is very rarely used. Note that 'data' is very commonly treated as a singular noun, eg the data is interesting.

  • Hi, Data.
  • In everyday speech, 'datum' is very rarely used.
  • Note that 'data' is very commonly treated as a singular noun, eg the data is interesting.
  • Clive
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Hi,

Data.

In everyday speech, 'datum' is very rarely used.

Note that 'data' is very commonly treated as a singular noun, eg the data is interesting.

Clive
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CliveHi,

Data.

In everyday speech, 'datum' is very rarely used.

Note that 'data' is very commonly treated as a singular noun, eg the data is interesting.

Clive


I'm not fond of this, but as long as we aren't going to use the singular any more, we might just as well do it this way. In reality, we don't very often l

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